On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:02PM +1000, tridge@samba.org wrote:> The non-technical reasons for this patch are available to anyone who> cares to read any of the many news sites that discuss recent> events. The fact that I can't discuss those reasons shouldn't preclude> me from proposing a technical solution which tries to minimise the> impact on Linux users.

Yes, the fact that you let someone else send a patch for you, refuse tostate any reason for it and when asked for it talk around the problemsis a very good reason not to bother with a patch.

If you think there is a patent problem with long file names and havea good argument for it we should just make the reduce functionalitythe default until it's settled. If you do not have a good argumentwe should drop this completely.

> I'm hoping that you and others will look at the proposed technical> solution to the non-technical problem, and perhaps suggest better> approaches. There are a wide variety of approaches to avoiding this> problem, and we need to work out which, if any, should be part of the> kernel.org releases.

Sorting out a problem starts with clearly stating what the problem is.